Kyokou Suiri was made into an anime in 2020, and although it was postponed once, Season 2 is scheduled to air from January 2023. It is a mystery that solves cases with fiction rather than truth, but it is a bit twisted. The first season of the anime was interesting and highly satisfying, and the second season is also a promising work! In this article, I would like to summarize the outline of the episodes that are likely to be included in the second season!
Episode 1: Overview of frequently visited stores
There was a coffee shop that Iwanaga Kotoko and Sakuragawa Kuro often went to for dates. Kotoko hits Kuro with a stick, and Kuro fights back and chokes her with an iron claw, so the two didn't look like lovers, but they were regular customers. The owner of the coffee shop was the second generation, and he served curry using the recipe inherited from his predecessor, but he couldn't figure out the secret ingredient in the curry that his predecessor used.
Episode 2: Lucky Day at the Eel Shop
Architect Takaya Kajio and his friend, programmer Ryotaro Jujoji, came to eat eel. A small, beautiful girl, not suited to a high-end eel restaurant, has come to eat eel. Meanwhile, Kajio begins to explain why he invited Jujoji to the eel restaurant. Kajio had a wife named Sachie, but since she passed away six months ago, he has felt heavy and gone days without sleep, but has only recently managed to recover, and the invitation is to celebrate her recovery. Jujoji asks Kajio, "You killed Sachie, didn't you?"
Episode 3: Pinocchio's Blitz, or When You Wish Upon a Star
In a seaside town in B Prefecture, a mass death of fish occurs, and Kotoko is informed of the incident. In other words, it is a case of supernatural phenomena. Apparently, the cause is a strange doll that moves around. The townspeople say that it may be the curse of Zenta. The grandson of Todaira Zenta, who lived in the town, was killed in an accident after being hit by a car driven by university students who were visiting the town. After that, the university students were put on trial, but Zenta died of heart failure while still holding a grudge. Zenta was making something right before his death. That was the doll.
Episode 4: Kotoko Iwanaga was a high school student
When Kotoko Iwanaga was a first-year high school student, second-year Mystery Research Club member Manabu Amachi was worried about the club's demise. The only member of the club was first-year Kotori Kobayashi, and Manabu thought that the club room would be taken away if things continued as they were, so he tried to recruit first-year Kotoko Iwanaga to the Mystery Research Club. She came from a good family, was small and pretty, but she had a prosthetic eye and leg due to a past incident, so she was difficult to approach. If Kotoko Iwanaga, who comes from a good family, joins the club, the club will not be closed and they may be able to secure new members. Thinking so, Manabu asks Kotori, who is in the same class as Kotoko, to recruit her.
Episode 5: Guillotine Sanshiro
When illustrator Sayoko Morino watches the news, she hears a report that a man named Kojiro Miyaigawa has been arrested. Moreover, it seems that he turned himself in. Sayoko is anxious and scared that she will soon be arrested as well, but a month has passed and the police have not shown up. Kojiro's case is widely reported in the news because he killed his stepbrother in a series of unforeseen accidents and had him guillotined. One day, Sayoko talks to a strange man-woman duo, Kuro and Kotoko, on the train, and Kuro begins to talk about the guillotine incident.
Episode 6: Rikka Returns
Two months ago, the apartment where Sakuragawa Rikka moved into was a notorious accident property. Three people had committed suicide in the property in one year, and perhaps due to this, Rikka, who had just moved in, was involved in a traffic accident. However, it is highly likely that Rikka died on purpose to win a big prize at the horse races because she is immortal. Later, when he goes drinking with a neighbor who knows about the accident property, he hears the details of the suicides. The first and second had a good reason to commit suicide, but the third person committed suicide without any signs of it.
Episode 7: For Tomorrow
Amanachi Manabu, who was once the head of the mystery research club to which Iwanaga Kotoko belonged, is called by his uncle Fujinuma Koya. He says that the reason is that he wants to know about Iwanaga Kotoko. He advises that it would be best not to get too involved with her, and that he should never try to use her to deceive her. She has solved a variety of problems, but she never reveals the truth and always settles everything as if she pulled strings behind the scenes. If he gets involved carelessly, he will see right through it. The reason Fujinuma wanted the information was that Iwanaga Kotoko had been chosen as the marker for determining whether a certain family would inherit an estate.
Episode 8 Sleeping Murder
When Kotoko is asked to meet with Goichi Otonashi, the chairman of the Otonashi Group, which operates numerous hotels, real estate, and tourism businesses both in Japan and overseas, Goichi asks her for a favor. That is to prove that he is capable of carrying out the murders he committed in the past. The person Goichi killed was his own wife, Sumi Otonashi. Sumi was a strong and capable manager despite being a woman, but due to her unilateral management, family relationships were on the verge of collapse, and the company was in danger of collapse if one thing was out of balance, and future collapse was obvious. So Goichi made a deal with the fox monster and killed Sumi, ultimately saving his company and his family. However, he didn't want his family to remember the successful murder, so he asked them to expose his crime even though he didn't have much time left to live.
Episode 9: The Snow Woman's Dilemma
Eleven years ago, Muroi Masayuki was pushed off a cliff by his friend in the snowy mountains, but was rescued by the snow woman and survived. After that, his life went smoothly, but his subordinates took over the company he founded, his wife cheated on him and nearly killed him, and Muroi became completely distrustful of people. He then ran into the Yuki-onna in town. He continued to interact with the Yuki-onna, and one day while they were practically living together, the police accused Muroi of murdering his ex-wife, Harada Miharu.
【Instantiation Season 2】Summary of Episodes Scheduled for Season 2
Here is a list of episodes that are likely to be included in the second season of Instantiation! It is likely that one of these episodes will be included. Also, information about the Yuki-onna's dilemma has been released at this time, so it is confirmed that it will be included. In the first season, it was an episode about Steel Man Nanase, but in the second season, I think the anime will include multiple short stories!
